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  • Arizonas 5-run 7th defeats Padres

    PHOENIX, Ariz. -; Arizona exploded for five runs against starter Eric Stults and the Padres bullpen in the seventh inning Friday night to score a 5-2 victory in the opener of a three-game series before 24,043 at Chase ...

  • Judge Arizona sheriff’s office targets Latinos

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio relied on racial profiling and illegal detentions to target Latinos, using their ethnicity as the main basis for suspecting that they were in the country illegally, a federal judge ...

  • Florida Staves Off Steals by Arizona

    TALLAHASSEE | Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in ...

  • Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos Federal Judge Rules

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with a reporter outside city jail in this May 3, 2010, file photo. (PAUL J. ...

  • Padres Pregame Hoping to stay hot in Arizona

    San Diego Padres' Chris Denorfia connects for a solid single to center that drives in Carlos Quentin with the tying run against the St. Louis Cardinals in the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Lenny ...


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Movie Review

The Exorcist

The Exorcist

"The Exorcist" is a great, stunning contradiction of a movie. At once an honest, disturbing exploration of the darker aspects of religion and the spiritual world, it is also an unabashed horror movie, a drive-in splatter flick with an Oscar-winning director and expensive production values. When the film was completed, no one was exactly sure what it was: was it an art film or a exploitation shocke ... ...

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  • Court Rules That Arizona Sheriff Engages In Racial Profiling

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (right) attends a rally for the Tea Party Express in 2010. A U.S. District court has ruled that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's department has violated the rights of Latino drivers by racially profiling them as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and issued an injunction to halt the ...

  • UNLV to face Arizona at home after deal falls apart to move football game

    moving the game to Glendale, Ariz., the Rebels football team will open its home slate on Sept. 7 against Arizona in Las Vegas as originally scheduled, UNLV Athletic Director Jim Livengood announced in a statement Friday. "We were approached by a promoter to move our September 7 home football game against Arizona to Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium but we've decided to ...

  • Arizona jury fails to decide if Jodi Arias should be executed

    1 of 8. Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, 2013. An Arizona jury weighing whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend deadlocked on Thursday and the judge ordered a retrial of the penalty phase of the ...

  • Arizona sheriffs office profiles Latinos federal judge rules

    PHOENIX – A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The 142-page decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe ...

  • Kidnapping suspect arrested after high-speed chase across Tucson

    A Tucson man suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend has been arrested after a high-speed, cross-town police chase.Ozziel Ramirez, 20, was arrested at about 1:30 p.m. today near Ryan Airfield about 10 miles southwest of Tucson.He is suspected of kidnapping Marveen Estrada, 23, at about 8 p.m. Thursday. Estrada was riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle that pulled into the Quickmart located ...

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